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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1650
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AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 15 › Verse 30
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Secondly, He falls into trouble.
He riseth from both these falls: He riseth from the first by repentance; he riseth from the second by deliverance. Solomons Text is to be understood of this second sort of falls, and may therefore be expounded by the direct words of David, (Psal. 34.19.) Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth them out of them all: The righteous have as many resurrections as falls, But (as Solomon makes the Antithesis in the place fore-cited) the wicked shall fall into mischief. Solomon doth not tell us expressly, what the just mans falls into, but he tells us he shall rise again: He tells us expressly what the wicked man shall fall into, but he doth not tell us, that he shall rise again; nay, he tells us implicitly, that he shall never rise again. He that riseth again, did not fall into mischief, how great soever the evil was which he fell into; and he that doth not rise again, fell into mischief, how little soever the evil was which he fell into. Nothing makes our falling either into sin, or trouble, a mischief to us, but our continuing in it. He goes far (we say in our Proverb) who never returns; surely, he falls low, who never riseth, and he stays long in darkness, who never departs out of it. Darkness is the portion of a wicked man, and he shall never depart out of darkness; neither out of that darkness of sin, ⟨p. 162⟩nor misery; he hath no desire to depart out of the former, and he hath no promise to depart out of the latter. Thus we have seen the negative punishment of a wicked man, what he shall not be, what he shall not receive; this is enough to make him miserable, but positive evil will make him outright miserable. This Eliphaz prosecutes in the next words.
He riseth from both these falls: He riseth from the first by repentance; he riseth from the second by deliverance. Solomons Text is to be understood of this second sort of falls, and may therefore be expounded by the direct words of David, (